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…new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

Ideas

New Ideas

[It’s] troubling because it reminds us how difficult it is to prove anything. We like to pretend that our experiments define the truth for us. But that’s often not the case. Just because an idea is true doesn’t mean it can be proved. And just because an idea can be proved doesn’t mean it’s true. When the experiments are done, we still have to choose what to believe.

Believe

Ideas

Mean

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

Lying

Wells

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.

Answers

Might

Thinking

By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare.

Average

Children

Encouragement

Children can’t help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

Children

Mind

Writing

Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.

Cities

Ideas

Mind

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

Creativity

Process

Term

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we’re rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

Creativity

Flames

Rocks

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It’s a skill.

Angel

Blessing

Creativity

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Break Out

California

Children

Cities

Creating

Creative

Creativity

Design

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Discipline

Distance

Diversity

Edges

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Encouragement

Flames

Fun

Genius

Giving

Grit

Hard

Hard Things

Hard Work

Holiday

Home

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Imperfection

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Ironic

Knows

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Lying

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Quotes by Jonah Lehrer

Jonah Lehrer

…new ideas are merely several old thoughts that occur at the exact same time.

A lie told well is just as good as the truth.

And so we keep on thinking, because the next thought might be the answer.

By the age of 3, children from wealthier households hear, on average, about 500,000 encouragements and 80,000 discouragements. The ratio is reversed in households on welfare.

Children can’t help but create: they need to put their mind on the page, they want to paint, to sculpt, to write short stories.

Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas.

Creativity is a catchall term for a variety of distinct thought processes.

Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we’re rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

Creativity is not a trait that we inherit in our genes or a blessing bestowed by the angels. It’s a skill.

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